Mr. Weekend und ist eine viereinhalb Meter große Roboter-Sockenpuppe von Mike Simi. Hinter dem Link verbergen sich neben Fotos auch noch zwei Videos.
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"In the heyday of holography, back in the 1970s, there were four schools dedicated to the holographic arts around the world, and five studios in New York City alone. Today, there are only a few left in the world ... Jason Sapan, as his birth certificate calls him, is sort of like a laser Doc Brown, and his cluttered New York studio-laboratory ... feels something like a time machine, a living ode to a seemingly obsolete art ... His laser lighting has been used at the original Studio 54, on CBS, in print advertising for Macy’s and Revlon, on Broadway, for book and magazine covers, and graphics at the original Studio 54, and a number of music videos, including a starring role in one by Flock of Seagulls, which landed him the first on-air credit in a video on MTV. ... While moving holograms that float in midair remain the stuff of science-fiction, Doctor Laser has pieced together a reality that’s much stranger: that studio in Midtown Manhattan, tucked into a former blacksmith’s forge, is a veritable wonder cabinet of dancing 3D imagery, flashing lasers and homemade holography equipment. He revels in that DIY-ness ..." Doctor Laser: Inside the Wondrous Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers
"We’re thrilled to present the Uncut Movie! It’s made up of all the highest rated scenes voted on by the fans ... Sit back and enjoy all the incredible submissions brought to you by Star Wars fans and filmmakers from all over the world."Ich schaue jetzt mal, ob es René mit seinem Beitrag in den Film geschafft hat ...
"In December of 1975, after a year of piecing together a bunch of new technology in a back lab at the Elmgrove Plant in Rochester, we were ready to try it. “It” being a rather odd-looking collection of digital circuits that we desperately tried to convince ourselves was a portable camera. It had a lens that we took from a used parts bin from the Super 8 movie camera production line downstairs from our little lab on the second floor in Bldg 4. On the side of our portable contraption, we shoehorned in a portable digital cassette instrumentation recorder. Add to that 16 nickel cadmium batteries, a highly temperamental new type of CCD imaging area array, an a/d converter implementation stolen from a digital voltmeter application, several dozen digital and analog circuits all wired together on approximately half a dozen circuit boards, and you have our interpretation of what a portable all electronic still camera might look like ..." We Had No Idea(via clusterflock)
"This design transforms mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape by making only small alterations to existing pylon design. Making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed tower design, we have created a series of towers that are powerful, solemn and variable. These iconic pylon-figures will become monuments in the landscape. Seeing the pylon-figures will become an unforgettable experience, elevating the towers to something more than merely a functional design of necessity." The Land of Giants(via Wired)
"... the Seattle Gum Wall is also one of the most germ infected tourist spot in the world. Located in Post Alley, under Park Place Market, the Gum Wall has its beginning in the early 1990s, when people, irritated that they had to wait in line to get tickets to the theater, stuck chewing gum on the wall. At first, they would use the gum to stick small coins to the wall, but in time, the tradition of the coins disappeared ... Theater attendants scraped the Gum Wall twice, but gave up in 1999, when it became a certified tourist attraction of Seattle ..." The Seattle Gum Wall – A Sticky Attraction(via Neatorama)
"A long time ago in a galaxy pretty far away... As a galactic civil war rages on, the escalating violence in your system has reached new heights. Seeking a better life you and a small band of compatriots set out on a perilous journey to find a new home. Alderaan, a small blue planet know for it's civility ( it is said by many that they have no weapons) would make the perfect retreat for your loved ones hoping to avoid Imperial entanglements. Untold danger awaits you on..." Matt Marchini: THE ALDERAAN TRAIL(via Boing Boing)